Abstract. In this paper, we characterize the class of distributions on an homogeneous Lie group N that can be extended via Poisson integration to a solvable one-dimensional extension S of N. To do so, we introducte the ß ′ -convolution on N and show that the set of distributions that are ß ′ -convolvable with Poisson kernels is precisely the set of suitably weighted derivatives of L 1 -functions. Moreover, we show that the ß ′ -convolution of such a distribution with the Poisson kernel is harmonic and has the expected boundary behaviour. Finally, we show that such distributions satisfy some global weak-L 1 estimates.